At Least 32 Dead in Afghan Bus Crash

VOA News
September 25, 2007

Afghan officials say at least 32 people have died in a head-on collision between two buses in southern Afghanistan.

At least 35 others were injured.

Police said the crash occurred Monday on the main road linking the capital Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar.

The Reuters news agency reports the crash occurred at a high speed about an hour before sundown.

In other news, NATO reports that a soldier with its International Security Assistance Force mission was killed and at least four others wounded while on patrol in southern Afghanistan on Monday.'